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battleships drive germans from belgian co a^p Chicago examiner vol xiii no 27 a m friday friday Chicago january 22 1915 registered pricf onf cfnt chl """ > Â«"" elsewiieite d 8 patent office nimv-e wiic 1 suburb f two cbxt4 half of u.s bank aids democrats was demand secretary's letter to j b forgan is given out Chicago fi nanciers turned him down it is asserted washington jan 21 â€” my experience with men lias been that democrats are as able as repub licans though some bankers appear not to think so and there stems to be no reason therefore why half of the employes siiould not be demo crats this sentence in a letter sent by secretary of state bryan to messrs forgau and reynolds the Chicago financiers at the head of the Chicago national reserve bank has reopened the whole controversy as to nepotism and favoritism in the new institu tion â€” with the difference that the relative about whom the ruw centers is a relative by marriage of the sec retary of state instead of the bank ers and it was the refusal of the Chicago men to give him the position in the bank that provoked the plaint at the head of this column lost out oh - other jobs the man mr bryan wanted to place in the reserve bank is george drury of oak pa.k who was a candidate for appraiser m Chicago but who failed to land that place because of a compact of some sort between sena tor james hamilton lewis and the democratic organization by which it was to go to a candidate selected by roger sullivan h e was also a can didate for assistant secretary of the treasury his name having been pre sented to secretary mcadoo by rep resentative andrews of Illinois but nothing mo e was heard of that can didacy he is a banker of experience hav ing been vice president of two in stitutions the examiners inform ant referred to him as a 30,000-a year man it is now possible to give the se quence ot events that led up to the allegations said to have been made by senator lewis in which james b forgan and george m reynolds presidents of chicago's largest banks were declared to be charged with put ting their own people in positions of authority in the government institu tion the formal charges which were expected to appear at the treasury department have not yet materialized however lewis acted o ijib.yan plea it now develops that senator lewis activities which were supposed 0 be on his own account were partly at least at the suggestion of secretary bryan it is known senator lewis vent to governor mcdougal of the Chicago reserve bank and asked him on be half of secretary bryan to place mr drury in a good position he told governor ifcdongal that secretary bryan's relative had been highly rec ommended to him and he thoushi he would he a valuable member of the bank's organization jrst what governor mcdougal's re ply was is not known but it is cer tain senator lewis mission failed of its purpose mr drury did not get the place none of the persons concerned would throw any light on the matter to-night secretary bryan shook his head when asked whether he had made any effort to fret mr drury a place in tlie Chicago bank t have nothing to say was his reply senator lewis said oe h:nl received n note from secretary mcartoo askiner him to come to the department and talk over tlie hicarro situation i shall have a conference with the secretary at the first convenient mo ment said senator l^wis after that i shall take such n course as i fpfl my dutv to the vholo situation compels on behalf of ip nubile par ticularly of Illinois until then i do rot wish to make sny further refer ence to the federal reserve contro versy i.kwis sim-int ox brtav otk senator lewis was asked if he knew of the letter written by sec-e bryan kin urged for job reopens bank row of the two largest banks in Chicago to whom senator lewis *> appealed it is now charged for a job in the Chicago reserve bank for a relative of secretary of state bryan george m reynolds president of the continental & commercial national bank at the left and james b forgan their refusal to accede to a demand that posi here be handed out as po litical patronage led to mrs carl beck robbed 0f 3,500 gems 280 cash north side society woman's val uables vanish from jewel case ex-employe sought there is a jewel case in a secret drawer of a dresser in the home of dr carl beck 601 demins place when mrs beck locked the case at 9 o'clock wednesday night si 500 in jewelry smd 2so in cash was thought to be absolutely safe inside yesterday the jewel case was there but it was empty dr beck who is chief of the staff at the henrotin memorial hospital notified the sheffield avenue police after an investigation a message was sent over the police wires asking that walter scrobat a former house man in the beck home be arrested scrobat it is sa*id appeared at the beck residence last night and de manded he be reinstated his demand was refused mrs beck is weli known in north side society four diamond lings two diamond set bracelets and a dia mond neck chain are among the miss ing jewels helen cudahy nurse quits boston hospital milwaukee wis jan 21 â€” miss helen cudahy daughter of patrick cudahy millionaire packer who en tered a boston hospital last spring to become a nurse is home again quite ill she arrived here to-day ac companied by her brother michael cudahy friends say that she will remain in milwaukee miss cudahy on taking up nursing said all young women should be able to do more than play bridge and dance escort who totes gun must pay 100 john casa 30 east one hundred and third street was fined 100 and costs by judge flanagan yesterday for carrying a loaded revolver i was taking a friend home and i took the gun along for protection casa pleaded i never carried a gun before and you had better not carry one again said the judge i have taken iriends home unarmed 100,000 fund to establish bank school i the banks of Chicago are raising a fund of 100,000 with which to give a technical banking education to i young bankers and bank employes ! the committee having the matter in charge has already raised 85,000 and expects by saturday to announce that 1 the entire sum has been arranged for if not actually in hand the banks are operating under the Chicago chapter of the american in | stitute of banking of which there are i | seventy chapters in the country the â€¢ i Chicago chapter has 1,200 members 'â€¢ the committee is composed of ' james b forgan chairman george m reynolds charles g dawes e a hamill and e d hulbert the idea i originated with john w gorby as â– sistant cashier of the central manu l facturing district bank president of the Chicago chapter ! this is the first time anything j like this has been attempted said ' mr gorby last night it will mean â€¢ a new race of bankers when we get the plan to working properly and we should soon rival germany in thoroughness and system the chapter will give a banquet at the hotel la salle to-morrow night the principal speaker will be fred 11 kent vice president of the bank ers trust company of new york city treads ice in safety but falls in own home icy sidewalks proved to be safer footing to mrs g r nyden eighty years old 2126 harrison street ev anston yesterday than the floors in her home she fell breaking her i right hip after slipping on a rug i her condition is serious she had i just come in from a walk of several i blocks on icy sidewalks louis f simon dies in atlantic city louis f simon manager of maurice l rothschild's store jackson boule vard and state street since its open ing eleven years ago died at atlan tic city n j yesterday mr simon had been in ill health for several weeks he was forty-nine years of age and lived at 5121 michigan avenjre wilson envoy in mexico shot by villa report george c carothers seriously wounded at aguas calientes dispatch to el paso says el paso texas jan 21 â€” carran za's agency here has received a re port that general villa shot george c carothers the state department representative who has been accom panying him since early in the re volt at aguas calientes to-night se riously wounding him the report is ridiculed by villa officials here efforts to communicate with aguas calientes failed leo friedman taken on actress charge leo s friedman fashionable mich igan avenue dealer in suits and gowns was arrested yesterday on a warrant oharglng larceny sworn to by thelma belyea an actress who gave her address as the grant ho tel friedman gave bond before mu nicipal judge prindiville and could not be found later miss belyea said she had been liv ing at a downtown hotel and decided to leave the hotel people refused to allow me to take my trunks away saying mr friedman had forbidden it she said they said he claimed some of the things â€” gifts to me â€” as his propertj now i am unable to get an engagement because i haven't the clothes for a stage appearance and ollie james weighs 450 pounds washington jan 21 the white house baby is a fine healthy child but did not overburden the stork that brought him his grandfather wor ried over the lack of avoirdupois consulted an old family friend dr blythe he seems well and strong said the president but he weighs only six and a half pounds i wouldn't worry about that mr president was the reply look at ollie james i}e weighed only four pounds when be was born eugenictest for Illinois weddings is council plea bill copied after wisconsin act to be demanded of legisla ture physical examinations for both bride and bridegroom a law requiring a physician's cer tificate of health for both bride and bridegroom at every wedding is de j manded by the health committee of the city council the committee yes terday approved a bill modeled after the eugenics laws of wisconsin ore gon and pennsylvania and it will be presented to the council next mon day night if passed there it will be sent to the legislature with the re quest that it be enacted into law mrs a a jannatta chairman of the Chicago woman's political equal ity league and dr anna blount ad dressed the committee both favored the bill assistant corporation counsel re ker who drew up the bill warned the committee that a bill was passed by sweden requiring that every man wishing to marry prove he could sup port a wife many young fellows | could not give proof and were for bidden to marry in a few years the decrease in the number of marriages and the increase in immorality forced the government to repeal the law dr yoixg approves bill dr george b young city health commissioner was called in and ap i proved the bill briefly the law contains these pro : visions all persons applying for a mar riage licens.e shall have been ex amined by a licensed physician within fifteen days and shall file a certificate of such physician that they are free from infectious disease so far as he can determine by physical examination and by the application of the recognized clinical and laboratory test the examiner shall be not less than thirty years of age and of good moral character the fee shall not exceed 10 and those who cannot afford that svm may be examined free by the county physician state to make test free in case of a disagreement as to the findings of any medical ex aminer the state laboratory shall make a test free any applicant who is refused a certificate may file affidavit with the county clerk that he has not had a fair examination and the judge of the county court shall settle tire matter without cost to the applicant and if he deems best may issue the certificate the penalty for going outside the state to be married to eÃŸ cape the eugenic law is thirty days to one year in prison if the parties return to the state inside a year the penalty for a county clerk who issues a license unlaw fully is from one to five years in prison the person who tells about any examination shall be sent to prison from one to five years the punishment of a physician who makes a false statement in his cer tificate is the loss of his license and liability to prosecution for perjury pseudo-suffragist bunkoes sweitzer robert sweitzer was bunkoed out of 5 this week by a woman purport ing to be a solicitor from the chi cago political equality league miss margaret dobyne of the league yes | terday warned every one against the i solicitor robert sweitzer headed the list of contributors i am told by the man who complained to me said miss dobyne indiana senate votes for eugenic wedding i indianapolis jan 21 â€” eugenic marriages in indiana were approved by the state senate to-day when it . passed a bill 32 to 12 providing that all persons seeking marriage licenses \ must first obtain a health certificate the bill now goes to the house for action robber taken near mayor's home after pistol fight policeman surprises holdup man attacking citizen after at tempted auto flight thug is ; forced to surrender within half a block of the home of mayor harrison at 3150 sheridan road a holdup man and a policeman engaged in a revolver duel in which a score of shots were fired last night the family of the mayor and other residents in that fashionable com munity were aroused by the fusil lade a score of pedestrians later participated in the capture of the robber at the sheffield avenue police sta tion where he was taken the robber is said to have admitted that he had held up three persons on the south side an hour prior to his capture aind that he had been implicated in at least thirty robberies within two weeks his arrest is regarded as one of the most important of recent police activities policeman sees attempt the holdup man was detected in the act cf robbing a isschen 1455 larrabee street at oakdale avenue and sheridan road by policeman thomas mahoney the policeman gave chase to the robber v/ho sought to escape in an automobile the ma chine became stalled in sheridan read at wellington avenue and the robber jumping silt ran north until he reached barry avenue here he sought refuge behind a tree and opened fire on the pursuing police man mahoney returned the fire from be hind another tree and for ten min utes bullets whistled about crashing windows of residences and sending pedestrians to shelter ammixmox ring out the robber finally exhausted hia ammunition and during a lull in the fire of the policeman shouted that he was willing to surrender ma honey accompanied by other men who had been hiding approached cau tiously and pounced upon the man he gave his name as elias hill d3b east thirty-fifth street he is a negro hill said that the automobile he had was stolen from k c winter 1321 elmwood avenue he said that he had operated on the south side early in the night robbing a l fox 442 east forty-fifth street of 3 and a watch glenn speers 5014 calumet avenue of 15 and charles lasalle 4545 st louis avenue of 10 and a watch police stop aid to sick city employes two men who have been gathering in money in all parts of the city to aid sick city employes were arrest ed yesterday by lieutenant michael gallery of the rogers park police station john wells 815 milton avenue and james ryan troy n y are the men charged with the confidence game when they were asked who the sick men were wells and ryan so the police say suddenly lost their memory woman is victim of first subway theft i was robbed in the subway ex claimed mrs james mchenry 174 west thirty-fifth street last night when she rushed into the thirty-fifth street police station what subway said the sergeant i didn't know we had a subway in Chicago the subway under the pennsyl vania tracks at thirty-fifth street she explained she said a negro watched ler purse containing 4 note that caused cardinal's arrest is made public remarkable missive to belgians sums up nation's woe be patriotic is plea new york jan 21 â€” permission has been granted by burns & oates ltd holders of the english copyright to print in the united states the pas toral letter of cardinal mercier which caused the belgian primate's arrest by the german military authorities in malines and brought the church at rome into the war as an active com plainant against german rule in that country cardinal mercier's letter is in part as follows my very dear brethren : i cannot tell you how instant and how present thought of you has been to me throughout the months of suffering and of mourning through which we have passed i had to leave abruptly on the 20th of august in order to fulfill my last duty toward the beloved and venerated pope whom we have lost and in order to discharge an obligation of the conscience from which i could not dispense myself in the elec tion of the successor of pius x the pontiff who now directs the church under the title full of promise and of hope of benedict xv got louvain sews !>' rome it was in rome itself that i re ceived the tidings â€” stroke after stroke â€” of the partial destruction of the cuthedral church of lou vain next to the burning of the library and of the scientific in stallations of our fjreat univer sity and of the devastation of the city and next of the wholesale shooting of citizens ind tortures inflicted upon women and chil dren and upon unarmed and un defended men and while i was still umlfr the shock of these calamities the telegraph brought us news of the bombardment of our beautiful metropolitan church of the church of notre dame au de la dyle of the episcopal palace and of a great part of our dear city of malines far from my diocese without means of communication with you x wa:j compelled to lock my grief within my own afflicted heart and to carry it with the thought of you which nevat left me to the crucifix belgium the first si'fferer i craved courage and light and sought them in such thoughts as these a disaster has visited the vorld and our beloved little bel gium a nation so faithful in the great mass of her population to god so upright in her patriot ism so noble in her king and government is the first sufferer she bleeds her sons are stricken down within her fortresses and upon her fields in defense of her rights and of her territory soon there will not be one bel gian family not in mourning why all this sorrow my god lord lord hast thou forsaken us then i looked upon the cru cifix i looked upon jesus most gentle and humble lamb of god crushed clothed in his blood as in a garment and i thought i heard from his own mouth the words which the psalmist uttered in his name o god my god look upon me why hast thou for saken me oh my god i shall cry and thou wilt not hear and forthwith the murmur died upon my lips and i remembered what our divine savior said in his gospel the disciple is not above the master nor the servant above his lord the christian is the servant of a god who be came man in order to suffer and to die the ikamn of christian to rebel against pain to revolt against providence because it permits grief and bereavement is to f'irjift a-liente we came the schot ' i which we have been taught tlie example that each of us cftzttes graven in the name of christian which each of us honors at his hearth contem plates at the il tar of his pray ers and of which he desires that teutons beatenry allies on 3 fronts french attacks south of st mihiel repulsed however berlin says germans start new flanders offensive london jan 22 4 a m a daily mail copenhagen dispatch says the german destroyers and submarines left heligoland roads wednesday and news from many sources in germany points to the fleet becoming more active london janttl gains on the left right and center each followed by successful resistance of violent counter attacks by the germans were reported to-night by the pari3 war office with the passing of the terrific storm that has held the hostile armies in leash for several days lighting of the most determined character has been resumed on all parts of the battle line germans attack iv rki.giim after several days of comparative calm says a rotterdam dispatch heavy fighting has been renewed over the front from ypres to the sea the ger mans taking the offensive the 1 lies resistance is backed by the clrt of the warships off the belgian coast although the germans had to evac j uate their coastal positions at maria - kerke on account of the fire from ine battleships the allies have not been able to occupy them as they are still under the fire of guns in german positions running parallel with ilie coast out of range of the naval u?>j recently the germans have spent much time and energy in strangli ing their second line of defend belgium farm houses ikivr beu converted into miniature fortr and batteries carefully posted u i ml suitable positions daybreak assault fails in the furious battle for the com manding position north of notre dame de lorette where the ger mans have been attempting to break through in what was judged general ly to be a new drive on the french coast the troops of general joffra have come out victorious after violently bombarding for a greater part of the night the plateau positions which the french regained for the second time after the ger mans by their own official admis sion had evacuated them on wednes day the kaiser's troops directed an extremely violent counter-attack just before daybreak the attack was not carried through for the fire which met massed hordes of invaders witherm the front ranks and broke the forie of the assault they withdrew did not again attempt the offensive two woods north of the bea jour farm were occupied by th krench to-day here also the ' mans attempted to retrieve th ir losses but the effort failed farther east where the french axfi exercising the most determined pree sure against the german wedge tecting the invaders communications from the french drive on metz tha fighting was particularly enerpetn capture of more than 1"io y:irds of german trenches in the forest of apremont southeast of st mihiel and the subsequent repulse of the gerninn counter-attack wire rpported to th general headquarters of the allies french claims disputed the french claims here are dis puted by the german statement which asserts that the french dt-j tacks south of st mihiel w*,re re-l pulsed while in the l^e petra â– â– . <â– m the germans state they captured fojl french cannon and several hui.d^b prisoners the germans realizing th i'^h continued on 4th page 26 column continued on 2d page 2d column i^6 jmti Â§?* \ ki.mty â€” snow l w la r : * i jÃŸ|k e^v temperatures average is ib a mi

battleships drive germans from belgian co a^p Chicago examiner vol xiii no 27 a m friday friday Chicago january 22 1915 registered pricf onf cfnt chl """ > Â«"" elsewiieite d 8 patent office nimv-e wiic 1 suburb f two cbxt4 half of u.s bank aids democrats was demand secretary's letter to j b forgan is given out Chicago fi nanciers turned him down it is asserted washington jan 21 â€” my experience with men lias been that democrats are as able as repub licans though some bankers appear not to think so and there stems to be no reason therefore why half of the employes siiould not be demo crats this sentence in a letter sent by secretary of state bryan to messrs forgau and reynolds the Chicago financiers at the head of the Chicago national reserve bank has reopened the whole controversy as to nepotism and favoritism in the new institu tion â€” with the difference that the relative about whom the ruw centers is a relative by marriage of the sec retary of state instead of the bank ers and it was the refusal of the Chicago men to give him the position in the bank that provoked the plaint at the head of this column lost out oh - other jobs the man mr bryan wanted to place in the reserve bank is george drury of oak pa.k who was a candidate for appraiser m Chicago but who failed to land that place because of a compact of some sort between sena tor james hamilton lewis and the democratic organization by which it was to go to a candidate selected by roger sullivan h e was also a can didate for assistant secretary of the treasury his name having been pre sented to secretary mcadoo by rep resentative andrews of Illinois but nothing mo e was heard of that can didacy he is a banker of experience hav ing been vice president of two in stitutions the examiners inform ant referred to him as a 30,000-a year man it is now possible to give the se quence ot events that led up to the allegations said to have been made by senator lewis in which james b forgan and george m reynolds presidents of chicago's largest banks were declared to be charged with put ting their own people in positions of authority in the government institu tion the formal charges which were expected to appear at the treasury department have not yet materialized however lewis acted o ijib.yan plea it now develops that senator lewis activities which were supposed 0 be on his own account were partly at least at the suggestion of secretary bryan it is known senator lewis vent to governor mcdougal of the Chicago reserve bank and asked him on be half of secretary bryan to place mr drury in a good position he told governor ifcdongal that secretary bryan's relative had been highly rec ommended to him and he thoushi he would he a valuable member of the bank's organization jrst what governor mcdougal's re ply was is not known but it is cer tain senator lewis mission failed of its purpose mr drury did not get the place none of the persons concerned would throw any light on the matter to-night secretary bryan shook his head when asked whether he had made any effort to fret mr drury a place in tlie Chicago bank t have nothing to say was his reply senator lewis said oe h:nl received n note from secretary mcartoo askiner him to come to the department and talk over tlie hicarro situation i shall have a conference with the secretary at the first convenient mo ment said senator l^wis after that i shall take such n course as i fpfl my dutv to the vholo situation compels on behalf of ip nubile par ticularly of Illinois until then i do rot wish to make sny further refer ence to the federal reserve contro versy i.kwis sim-int ox brtav otk senator lewis was asked if he knew of the letter written by sec-e bryan kin urged for job reopens bank row of the two largest banks in Chicago to whom senator lewis *> appealed it is now charged for a job in the Chicago reserve bank for a relative of secretary of state bryan george m reynolds president of the continental & commercial national bank at the left and james b forgan their refusal to accede to a demand that posi here be handed out as po litical patronage led to mrs carl beck robbed 0f 3,500 gems 280 cash north side society woman's val uables vanish from jewel case ex-employe sought there is a jewel case in a secret drawer of a dresser in the home of dr carl beck 601 demins place when mrs beck locked the case at 9 o'clock wednesday night si 500 in jewelry smd 2so in cash was thought to be absolutely safe inside yesterday the jewel case was there but it was empty dr beck who is chief of the staff at the henrotin memorial hospital notified the sheffield avenue police after an investigation a message was sent over the police wires asking that walter scrobat a former house man in the beck home be arrested scrobat it is sa*id appeared at the beck residence last night and de manded he be reinstated his demand was refused mrs beck is weli known in north side society four diamond lings two diamond set bracelets and a dia mond neck chain are among the miss ing jewels helen cudahy nurse quits boston hospital milwaukee wis jan 21 â€” miss helen cudahy daughter of patrick cudahy millionaire packer who en tered a boston hospital last spring to become a nurse is home again quite ill she arrived here to-day ac companied by her brother michael cudahy friends say that she will remain in milwaukee miss cudahy on taking up nursing said all young women should be able to do more than play bridge and dance escort who totes gun must pay 100 john casa 30 east one hundred and third street was fined 100 and costs by judge flanagan yesterday for carrying a loaded revolver i was taking a friend home and i took the gun along for protection casa pleaded i never carried a gun before and you had better not carry one again said the judge i have taken iriends home unarmed 100,000 fund to establish bank school i the banks of Chicago are raising a fund of 100,000 with which to give a technical banking education to i young bankers and bank employes ! the committee having the matter in charge has already raised 85,000 and expects by saturday to announce that 1 the entire sum has been arranged for if not actually in hand the banks are operating under the Chicago chapter of the american in | stitute of banking of which there are i | seventy chapters in the country the â€¢ i Chicago chapter has 1,200 members 'â€¢ the committee is composed of ' james b forgan chairman george m reynolds charles g dawes e a hamill and e d hulbert the idea i originated with john w gorby as â– sistant cashier of the central manu l facturing district bank president of the Chicago chapter ! this is the first time anything j like this has been attempted said ' mr gorby last night it will mean â€¢ a new race of bankers when we get the plan to working properly and we should soon rival germany in thoroughness and system the chapter will give a banquet at the hotel la salle to-morrow night the principal speaker will be fred 11 kent vice president of the bank ers trust company of new york city treads ice in safety but falls in own home icy sidewalks proved to be safer footing to mrs g r nyden eighty years old 2126 harrison street ev anston yesterday than the floors in her home she fell breaking her i right hip after slipping on a rug i her condition is serious she had i just come in from a walk of several i blocks on icy sidewalks louis f simon dies in atlantic city louis f simon manager of maurice l rothschild's store jackson boule vard and state street since its open ing eleven years ago died at atlan tic city n j yesterday mr simon had been in ill health for several weeks he was forty-nine years of age and lived at 5121 michigan avenjre wilson envoy in mexico shot by villa report george c carothers seriously wounded at aguas calientes dispatch to el paso says el paso texas jan 21 â€” carran za's agency here has received a re port that general villa shot george c carothers the state department representative who has been accom panying him since early in the re volt at aguas calientes to-night se riously wounding him the report is ridiculed by villa officials here efforts to communicate with aguas calientes failed leo friedman taken on actress charge leo s friedman fashionable mich igan avenue dealer in suits and gowns was arrested yesterday on a warrant oharglng larceny sworn to by thelma belyea an actress who gave her address as the grant ho tel friedman gave bond before mu nicipal judge prindiville and could not be found later miss belyea said she had been liv ing at a downtown hotel and decided to leave the hotel people refused to allow me to take my trunks away saying mr friedman had forbidden it she said they said he claimed some of the things â€” gifts to me â€” as his propertj now i am unable to get an engagement because i haven't the clothes for a stage appearance and ollie james weighs 450 pounds washington jan 21 the white house baby is a fine healthy child but did not overburden the stork that brought him his grandfather wor ried over the lack of avoirdupois consulted an old family friend dr blythe he seems well and strong said the president but he weighs only six and a half pounds i wouldn't worry about that mr president was the reply look at ollie james i}e weighed only four pounds when be was born eugenictest for Illinois weddings is council plea bill copied after wisconsin act to be demanded of legisla ture physical examinations for both bride and bridegroom a law requiring a physician's cer tificate of health for both bride and bridegroom at every wedding is de j manded by the health committee of the city council the committee yes terday approved a bill modeled after the eugenics laws of wisconsin ore gon and pennsylvania and it will be presented to the council next mon day night if passed there it will be sent to the legislature with the re quest that it be enacted into law mrs a a jannatta chairman of the Chicago woman's political equal ity league and dr anna blount ad dressed the committee both favored the bill assistant corporation counsel re ker who drew up the bill warned the committee that a bill was passed by sweden requiring that every man wishing to marry prove he could sup port a wife many young fellows | could not give proof and were for bidden to marry in a few years the decrease in the number of marriages and the increase in immorality forced the government to repeal the law dr yoixg approves bill dr george b young city health commissioner was called in and ap i proved the bill briefly the law contains these pro : visions all persons applying for a mar riage licens.e shall have been ex amined by a licensed physician within fifteen days and shall file a certificate of such physician that they are free from infectious disease so far as he can determine by physical examination and by the application of the recognized clinical and laboratory test the examiner shall be not less than thirty years of age and of good moral character the fee shall not exceed 10 and those who cannot afford that svm may be examined free by the county physician state to make test free in case of a disagreement as to the findings of any medical ex aminer the state laboratory shall make a test free any applicant who is refused a certificate may file affidavit with the county clerk that he has not had a fair examination and the judge of the county court shall settle tire matter without cost to the applicant and if he deems best may issue the certificate the penalty for going outside the state to be married to eÃŸ cape the eugenic law is thirty days to one year in prison if the parties return to the state inside a year the penalty for a county clerk who issues a license unlaw fully is from one to five years in prison the person who tells about any examination shall be sent to prison from one to five years the punishment of a physician who makes a false statement in his cer tificate is the loss of his license and liability to prosecution for perjury pseudo-suffragist bunkoes sweitzer robert sweitzer was bunkoed out of 5 this week by a woman purport ing to be a solicitor from the chi cago political equality league miss margaret dobyne of the league yes | terday warned every one against the i solicitor robert sweitzer headed the list of contributors i am told by the man who complained to me said miss dobyne indiana senate votes for eugenic wedding i indianapolis jan 21 â€” eugenic marriages in indiana were approved by the state senate to-day when it . passed a bill 32 to 12 providing that all persons seeking marriage licenses \ must first obtain a health certificate the bill now goes to the house for action robber taken near mayor's home after pistol fight policeman surprises holdup man attacking citizen after at tempted auto flight thug is ; forced to surrender within half a block of the home of mayor harrison at 3150 sheridan road a holdup man and a policeman engaged in a revolver duel in which a score of shots were fired last night the family of the mayor and other residents in that fashionable com munity were aroused by the fusil lade a score of pedestrians later participated in the capture of the robber at the sheffield avenue police sta tion where he was taken the robber is said to have admitted that he had held up three persons on the south side an hour prior to his capture aind that he had been implicated in at least thirty robberies within two weeks his arrest is regarded as one of the most important of recent police activities policeman sees attempt the holdup man was detected in the act cf robbing a isschen 1455 larrabee street at oakdale avenue and sheridan road by policeman thomas mahoney the policeman gave chase to the robber v/ho sought to escape in an automobile the ma chine became stalled in sheridan read at wellington avenue and the robber jumping silt ran north until he reached barry avenue here he sought refuge behind a tree and opened fire on the pursuing police man mahoney returned the fire from be hind another tree and for ten min utes bullets whistled about crashing windows of residences and sending pedestrians to shelter ammixmox ring out the robber finally exhausted hia ammunition and during a lull in the fire of the policeman shouted that he was willing to surrender ma honey accompanied by other men who had been hiding approached cau tiously and pounced upon the man he gave his name as elias hill d3b east thirty-fifth street he is a negro hill said that the automobile he had was stolen from k c winter 1321 elmwood avenue he said that he had operated on the south side early in the night robbing a l fox 442 east forty-fifth street of 3 and a watch glenn speers 5014 calumet avenue of 15 and charles lasalle 4545 st louis avenue of 10 and a watch police stop aid to sick city employes two men who have been gathering in money in all parts of the city to aid sick city employes were arrest ed yesterday by lieutenant michael gallery of the rogers park police station john wells 815 milton avenue and james ryan troy n y are the men charged with the confidence game when they were asked who the sick men were wells and ryan so the police say suddenly lost their memory woman is victim of first subway theft i was robbed in the subway ex claimed mrs james mchenry 174 west thirty-fifth street last night when she rushed into the thirty-fifth street police station what subway said the sergeant i didn't know we had a subway in Chicago the subway under the pennsyl vania tracks at thirty-fifth street she explained she said a negro watched ler purse containing 4 note that caused cardinal's arrest is made public remarkable missive to belgians sums up nation's woe be patriotic is plea new york jan 21 â€” permission has been granted by burns & oates ltd holders of the english copyright to print in the united states the pas toral letter of cardinal mercier which caused the belgian primate's arrest by the german military authorities in malines and brought the church at rome into the war as an active com plainant against german rule in that country cardinal mercier's letter is in part as follows my very dear brethren : i cannot tell you how instant and how present thought of you has been to me throughout the months of suffering and of mourning through which we have passed i had to leave abruptly on the 20th of august in order to fulfill my last duty toward the beloved and venerated pope whom we have lost and in order to discharge an obligation of the conscience from which i could not dispense myself in the elec tion of the successor of pius x the pontiff who now directs the church under the title full of promise and of hope of benedict xv got louvain sews !>' rome it was in rome itself that i re ceived the tidings â€” stroke after stroke â€” of the partial destruction of the cuthedral church of lou vain next to the burning of the library and of the scientific in stallations of our fjreat univer sity and of the devastation of the city and next of the wholesale shooting of citizens ind tortures inflicted upon women and chil dren and upon unarmed and un defended men and while i was still umlfr the shock of these calamities the telegraph brought us news of the bombardment of our beautiful metropolitan church of the church of notre dame au de la dyle of the episcopal palace and of a great part of our dear city of malines far from my diocese without means of communication with you x wa:j compelled to lock my grief within my own afflicted heart and to carry it with the thought of you which nevat left me to the crucifix belgium the first si'fferer i craved courage and light and sought them in such thoughts as these a disaster has visited the vorld and our beloved little bel gium a nation so faithful in the great mass of her population to god so upright in her patriot ism so noble in her king and government is the first sufferer she bleeds her sons are stricken down within her fortresses and upon her fields in defense of her rights and of her territory soon there will not be one bel gian family not in mourning why all this sorrow my god lord lord hast thou forsaken us then i looked upon the cru cifix i looked upon jesus most gentle and humble lamb of god crushed clothed in his blood as in a garment and i thought i heard from his own mouth the words which the psalmist uttered in his name o god my god look upon me why hast thou for saken me oh my god i shall cry and thou wilt not hear and forthwith the murmur died upon my lips and i remembered what our divine savior said in his gospel the disciple is not above the master nor the servant above his lord the christian is the servant of a god who be came man in order to suffer and to die the ikamn of christian to rebel against pain to revolt against providence because it permits grief and bereavement is to f'irjift a-liente we came the schot ' i which we have been taught tlie example that each of us cftzttes graven in the name of christian which each of us honors at his hearth contem plates at the il tar of his pray ers and of which he desires that teutons beatenry allies on 3 fronts french attacks south of st mihiel repulsed however berlin says germans start new flanders offensive london jan 22 4 a m a daily mail copenhagen dispatch says the german destroyers and submarines left heligoland roads wednesday and news from many sources in germany points to the fleet becoming more active london janttl gains on the left right and center each followed by successful resistance of violent counter attacks by the germans were reported to-night by the pari3 war office with the passing of the terrific storm that has held the hostile armies in leash for several days lighting of the most determined character has been resumed on all parts of the battle line germans attack iv rki.giim after several days of comparative calm says a rotterdam dispatch heavy fighting has been renewed over the front from ypres to the sea the ger mans taking the offensive the 1 lies resistance is backed by the clrt of the warships off the belgian coast although the germans had to evac j uate their coastal positions at maria - kerke on account of the fire from ine battleships the allies have not been able to occupy them as they are still under the fire of guns in german positions running parallel with ilie coast out of range of the naval u?>j recently the germans have spent much time and energy in strangli ing their second line of defend belgium farm houses ikivr beu converted into miniature fortr and batteries carefully posted u i ml suitable positions daybreak assault fails in the furious battle for the com manding position north of notre dame de lorette where the ger mans have been attempting to break through in what was judged general ly to be a new drive on the french coast the troops of general joffra have come out victorious after violently bombarding for a greater part of the night the plateau positions which the french regained for the second time after the ger mans by their own official admis sion had evacuated them on wednes day the kaiser's troops directed an extremely violent counter-attack just before daybreak the attack was not carried through for the fire which met massed hordes of invaders witherm the front ranks and broke the forie of the assault they withdrew did not again attempt the offensive two woods north of the bea jour farm were occupied by th krench to-day here also the ' mans attempted to retrieve th ir losses but the effort failed farther east where the french axfi exercising the most determined pree sure against the german wedge tecting the invaders communications from the french drive on metz tha fighting was particularly enerpetn capture of more than 1"io y:irds of german trenches in the forest of apremont southeast of st mihiel and the subsequent repulse of the gerninn counter-attack wire rpported to th general headquarters of the allies french claims disputed the french claims here are dis puted by the german statement which asserts that the french dt-j tacks south of st mihiel w*,re re-l pulsed while in the l^e petra â– â– .